Background papers, developed by members of the Task Force to Study Programs Leading to Certification for Teachers in the Area of Social Studies, Illustrate the approach taken toward development of a new regulation for certification of social studies teachers in the state of Minnesota. These papers were prepared primarily as a means of identifying broad areas of teacher competencies to be included in the new certification regulation and in the guidelines to accompany that regulation. The competency model which is developed by the Task Force focuses on student outputs rather than teacher inputs to the learning process. In this document identification is made of desired goals in the cognitive domain for social studies education. Representative teacher competencies and behaviors useful for helping pupils progress toward these goals are listed. Related documents are SO 006 086-89. (SHM)